Help, please

[Dajwid]

I would like to learn to weld, In my late fathers shed I found a welder.

http://www.cqout.com/item.asp?id=3738119

Draper 75A ARC/TIG Inverter Welder.

I have used an arc welder, many years ago. The weld held but were bumpy to say the least.

I am hoping to manage to tack a couple of repair panels on my car, I have been told by a couple of people this welder is of no use as Arc welding is no good for car bodywork, This welder has leads that look like arc welding leads, one for the rod and another to earth.
What would I need to buy to be able to Tig weld with this? Would Tig welding be OK for body panels.

Or do I bin the welder??

Any help would be great, sorry for so many silly questions, but we all need to start somewhere.

Thanks
Dave

 

[zardoz]

Good grief no dont bin the welder. it is a perfectly decent mahine. Also that would be fine for bodywork if you used it as a TIG welder. Although... You would have to buy a set of TIG leads if you dont already have them??, (does it have ARC leads or both ?) and also rent some pure Argon gas for shielding. Then there is the little matter of TIG being difficult to learn for a beginer if nobody is around to show them whats what.

It is a perfectly decent hobby/DIY machine really, its a shame you didnt find a MIG welder which you could have learned on easier. There are some on here who would say that you could use it on bodywork. I spose you could give it a go, just make sure you weld onto metal and not paint or rust. Personally it didnt work for me, but that could well of been my crappy cheap Arc rods ? (or my crappy technique ?)

If you want to give it a go and post your results here as pictures, then i assure you that you will get plenty of help.

 

[Dajwid]

It only has Arc leads, For Tig I assume I need gas as well.

What leads di I need for Tig. Sorry to sound a plonker, but Tig is a total mystery to me.

 

[patreusch]

you need a torch and ground lead it most likely comes with a ground so just a torch plus a way to hook the gas up to the torch

 

[Welsupplies.co.uk]

You would need a tig torch with the gas valve on the handle, correct me if im wrong i think the torch is a wp 9???